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Book Review: Odyssey Guidebooks China Series

Beijing and Shanghai: China's Hottest Cities Peter Hibbard, Paul Mooney & Steven Schwankert Yangz...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

Beijing residents play chequers in a doorway in Hutong. Beijing's Hutongs date back to the 12th century and are a labyrinth of brick houses with walled courtyards.

Retired artist in race against time to save memory of old Beijing

* * * * * Equipped with a simple camera, 71-year-old Beijing resident Lu Baohua is striving to re...

China AFP/Peter Harmsen

Review of Terrence Cheng's Sons of Heaven

National leaders occasionally decide that some of the nation's citizens must die so that the nati...

China Kenneth Champeon

The Glorious Slackers of Beijing!

Forget what you might have heard about Beijing being a gray place, its inhabitants clad in dowdy ...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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Finding a Spouse in China

BEIJING, June 28, 2005 - During her visit home for Chinese New Year, Gan Xiaoge's parents lined u...

China AFP/Cindy Sui

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China on the Web

China Today . This is a comprehensive database on all things China. Categories include diplomatic...

China ThingsAsian

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A Room of His Own

When Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, English-speakin...

China Kenneth Champeon

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Go East, Young Man. Go East.

Review of Yasunari Kawabata's The Master of Go.

China Kenneth Champeon

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Eighteenth-century merchant ship is reborn

Gothenburg, Sweden, Jan 21, 2003 - The smell of wood-chips fills the air as workers using traditi...

China AFP/Jean Liou

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